"As for the GPL, it's total war."

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

At 12:41 01/11/2003 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 01:08:11AM -0500, Marcus Brubaker wrote
>
> > Honestly, the more I read about this case, the more I believe that
> > SCO honestly doesn't expect to win.
>
>   Here's my take on their strategy.  They plan to win big by losing big.
>This will take some explaining.  SCO's benefactor, Microsoft, has an
>absolutely crummy OS when it comes to security.  They would love to use
>all that secure OSS stuff out there to fix up Windows, but using it
>would require MS to distribute their source code under the GPL.  So how
>does MS get rid of the GPL... simple, get IBM and SGI to defeat it in
>court !!!
[snip]

MS does not need to defeat the GPL to use source code from a secure OS when 
they can just use BSD code without having to resort to any shenanigans. MS 
might want to defeat the GPL for other reasons but I don't think this is 
one of them.

Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis Corporation
3266 Yonge Street, Suite 1419
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M4N 3P6

Tel: 416-410-3326 

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